New Sponsored Vehicle from Honda New Zealand

26/05/2016

The Foundation is extremely privileged and grateful for the ongoing support that we receive from Honda New Zealand. This week Rick Pickard, General Manager received the keys from Lisa Campbell, Sponsorship Relationship Manager, Honda New Zealand to ...

Queen Street Golden Mile 2014

9/04/2014

FYFOD

6th April 2014

The weather gods pulled out a stunner of a day for Sunday’s Queen Street Golden Mile. Thousands of people lined Queen Street or crowded around Queens Wharf to get a glimpse of top elite athletes taking on the Queen Street Golden ...

Honda now powering the Foundation's Dreams

17/02/2014

Find Your Field of Dreams

The John Walker ‘Find Your Field of Dreams’ Foundation is excited to announce its new partnership with Honda New Zealand Limited. On Wednesday 12th February 2014 Murray Selby the General Manager of Honda, presented Sir John Walker with the keys to a ...

Free Swim Programme Receives Big Boost

2/12/2013

Armin Lindenberg

27 November 2013 - Community Swim, the flagship programme of the John Walker FIND YOUR FIELD OF DREAMS Foundation (FYFOD), received a big boost this week with a donation of $75,000 from the Potter Masonic Trust.

Free Swim Programme Marks its 500,000th Milestone

26/09/2013

Lindenberg & Partners

An 8-year-old Aucklander was the recipient of the Community Swim programme’s 500,000th free swimming lesson today, as the flagship project of Sir John Walker’s Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation (FYFOD) marked a major milestone.

Sam maintains his world ranking of 18th

22/07/2013

The World Youth Athletics Championships are over for another year. Sam Ulufonua finished the competition maintaining his world ranking of 18th and unfortunately didn’t qualify for the finals. We are really proud of the efforts that Sam made to ...

Sam off on his Quest for Gold

26/06/2013

Young Sam Ulufonua, one of the Throw for Gold programme’s rising stars, jetted off on Sunday 23rd June on his quest to win gold at the World Under 18 Athletics Championship in the Ukraine. Leaving behind family, friends and his coach to take on the ...

Countdown Breakfast of Champions a huge success

23/08/2012

Field of Dreams

Hosted by TV3 sports personality and presenter Howard Dobson (Dobbo), sponsored by Countdown and staged at SKY CITY, the August 8 fundraising event was timed to coincide with the live TVcast of the Olympic 1500m final which featured New Zealand’s ...

BNZ “Closed for Good” Support Primary Sport

28/05/2012

Lincoln Jefferson - CMS

For the second year running BNZ “Closed for Good” staff have volunteered their time and supported the delivery of The John Walker “Find Your Field of Dreams” Foundation Primary Sport Programme delivered by Counties Manukau Sport.

South Auckland youth graduate leadership programme

21/12/2011

Manukau Leisure Services

A dozen carefully selected South Auckland youth have graduated from the second annual AMP’d leadership programme. The young leaders were identified from the AMP’d drop in programme, which provides free sport and recreation for 11 to 17-year-olds ...

AMP’d recognised at Manurewa Youth Workers’ Awards

13/12/2011

Approximately 250 people attended the 2011 Manurewa Youth Workers’ Awards, which is held every two years at Te Matariki Clendon Community Centre and Library to honour the work of youth workers in the young, vibrant community.

South Auckland kids joining their teams

17/01/2011

Terry Maddaford, NZ Herald

Encouraged by the overwhelming success of a pilot programme aimed at having more South Auckland secondary school children playing sport, another three schools will be added to next year's initiative supported by the Sir John Walker Find Your Field ...

Community Swim gains speed with new bus

12/10/2010

Community Swim, the cornerstone project of the John Walker Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation, has recently gained new momentum with the addition of a fourth bus to transport a growing number of Manukau youngsters to their swim lessons.

Clubs Capitalise on Club Smart Smarts

16/08/2010

More than 50 clubs in Manukau now benefit from Club Smart programme that helps them manage various issues including volunteer and member recruitment and retention, funding, facilities and legal responsibilities.

Award is nice but Olympic hero's dream is of cash

27/04/2010

Dana Johannsen, NZ Herald

Sir John Walker's Find Your Field of Dreams foundation was one of the big winners at last night's Sport and Recreation sector awards. But it's not a pat on the back the Kiwi Olympic hero is after, it's cold hard cash.

Athletic legend returns to school for launch

25/03/2010

One of Manukau's favourite sons, Sir John Walker, will make a rare visit back to his old school next Tuesday (March 30) for the launch of the new John Walker Find Your Field Of Dreams programme, Secondary Sport.

More Manukau youth to benefit from AMP’d

20/10/2009

An overwhelming response to the initial pilot introduced in Manurewa earlier this year has resulted in the John Walker ‘Find Your Field of Dreams’ Foundation confirming the launch of its AMP'd programme, designed to provide free sport and ...

Free swim lessons extend to more children

5/01/2009

Following positive feedback, the John Walker Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation has now extended its Community Swim programme to include Year Four children in Manukau, almost doubling the capacity of the programme.